Meta Platforms and TikTok on Wednesday won a legal challenge to the way EU regulators calculated a supervisory fee imposed on them under landmark tech rules, but will receive...
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PsiQuantum, the Silicon Valley quantum computing startup backed by the Australian government, has pocketed US$1 billion (A$1.5 billion) from big name investors in a long-awaited Series E capital raise....
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Telstra chief executive Vicki Brady has called on government to designate telecommunications as a priority sector for a “deep dive” on regulatory reform to make it easier and faster...
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Australia’s largest transmission provider Transgrid has put a call out to local innovators to help manage electricity demand, offering up part of its $4.7 million innovation fund. The NSW...
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American defence technology startup Anduril has secured a $1.7 billion contract with the Royal Australian Navy to build a new fleet of unmanned military submarines with strike capabilities in...
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Australia has begun exploratory talks with the European Commission about joining the $170 billion Horizon Europe initiative, the world’s largest funding program for research and innovation. Science minister Tim...
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The US Environmental Protection Agency has proposed new measures aimed at speeding construction of infrastructure needed for the rapid buildup of data centers for artificial intelligence that would enable...
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Australia must develop its own domain-specific AI models at a minimum if it is to have any chance of combating regional ‘AI lock-in’ and build a competitive edge with...
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The NSW government’s use of artificial intelligence is atop the state audit office’s work program this year, with whole of government policies for the technology and individual agency deployments...
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The Australian Information Industry Association has called on the federal government to use its leverage as a major technology buyer to secure volume discounts on cybersecurity services and provide...
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Pornographic websites and providers of AI companion bots will be required to check Australian users’ ages from next year, after the online safety regulator accepted industry’s plans to restrict...
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In a small suburb of the Gold Coast, a 6,500sqm farm is producing more than 400 tonnes of herbs and leafy greens each year. This facility is a vertical...
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Anthropic’s Claude is set to become the next locally hosted AI model available through GovAI, as the federal government fixes on a technology agnostic approach to boost the platform’s...
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Australian venture capital legend Bill Ferris has urged government – and the Strategic Examination of R&D – to address “intergenerational inequities” as a supporting framework for building national missions...